{"id":108,"date":"2008-06-30T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/06\/30\/the-iphone-app-gold-rush\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T20:10:06","slug":"the-iphone-app-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/the-iphone-app-gold-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone app Gold Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dcozza.wordpress.com\/\">Daniel Cozza<\/a> and I have been working for the past few months on number of iPhone app ideas.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got a some prototypes and working code.\u00a0 But honestly, it&#8217;s been very hard to find interesting angles:\u00a0 the iPhone app space is off-the-charts on the hype curve and is extremely crowded.<\/p>\n<p>This app &#8220;gold rush&#8221; is great for Apple and for consumers (once the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/appstore\/\">App Store<\/a> is open).\u00a0 The availability of third party applications will further distance the iPhone from other mobile devices.\u00a0\u00a0 However, entrepreneurship is fundamentally about discovering and developing unnoticed opportunities.\u00a0 The iPhone market app has clearly been &#8220;noticed&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>(Worse, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Gold_Rush\">real Gold Rush<\/a> was open-ended:\u00a0 there was always a chance that there was enough gold for everyone.\u00a0 The iPhone app rush is finite:\u00a0 there&#8217;s a large batch of developers competing for a finite (but growing) set of devices and user attention.)<\/p>\n<p>What to do?\u00a0 Options:\u00a0 (a) dive into the rush anyway, (b) sell tools to the miners, or (c) look elsewhere?\u00a0 It&#8217;s your typical non-obvious entrepreneurial judgment call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cozza and I have been working for the past few months on number of iPhone app ideas.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got a some prototypes and working code.\u00a0 But honestly, it&#8217;s been very hard to find interesting angles:\u00a0 the iPhone app space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/the-iphone-app-gold-rush\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}